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(DIR) Post #AqzchamzJKdpt8FoFk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-11T01:02:57Z
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#FoodForThought"There are currently 5.9 million dairy cattle in Aotearoa, who consume 75% of the total grain and feed in the country; we humans eat only 9%. The herd needs around 20% supplementary feeding [feed provided in addition to grass] and some 50-60% of supplementary feed on most dairy farms is imported."#ClaireInsley, Vegan and Plant-Based Living magazine, issue 56, Summer 2024/25#dairy #DairyFarming
(DIR) Post #Aqzdi5HQ2wqYPMHoX2 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-11T01:14:13Z
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Side note: the editorial says this is the last printed issue of the magazine. It's looking more and more likely that I'll see the end of print magazines, at least as the mass medium they've been in my lifetime.For me this points to the need for a magazine equivalent of podcasting. An open network where anyone can publish using standard formats and distribution protocols, and anyone can write an app people can use to subscribe and read digital magazines.(1/2)#magazines #DigitalMagazines
(DIR) Post #AqzdtbXOSBs3dfFeYi by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-11T01:16:23Z
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Bonus points for paid subscriptions, also using open protocols. So any publisher can receive payments from subscribers, and any app can support paid subscriptions, without needing permission from a centralised payment gateway.(2/2)
(DIR) Post #Aqzfv4kpVnlSS0Mizw by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-11T01:39:01Z
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"Aotearoa grows over 400,000 tones of wheat every year, 80% of which is fed to the dairy herd. Most of the bread in New Zealand is made from imported Australian wheat, because we can't grow enough wheat to feed both humans and cows."#ClaireInsley, Vegan and Plant-Based Living magazine, issue 56, Summer 2024/25#dairy #DairyFarming
(DIR) Post #Aqzy3RY4RhcAdZXMvI by canusfeminacanis@mastodon.nz
2025-02-11T05:01:24Z
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@strypey That explains why the quality of NZ dairy is going down the tubes. Thanks, Fonterra. A temperate climate and NZ needs to resort to wheat for its cattle? Stupid.
(DIR) Post #Ar03j3j9tzf8gsO2nw by john@liberdon.com
2025-02-11T06:05:45Z
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@strypey > anyone can publish using standard formats and distribution protocols, Wouldn't this be RSS? While it may be blogs that made RSS famous, an RSS feed is a reasonable choice for publishing a periodical series of whatever (if it's in a digital medium). e.g. a podcast is just an RSS feed with audio attachments on the entries.> and anyone can write an app people can use to subscribe and read digital magazines.For RSS that would just be a feed reader. Check your package manager.
(DIR) Post #Ar1zNyDLC57Q0g72y8 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-12T04:26:35Z
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@john > Wouldn't this be RSS?Yes, that's probably a good plumbing option. Although I'm sure @rabble and others would argue for Nostr as another.> For RSS that would just be a feed reader.Existing RSS readers are designed for reading texts, which are a verbal medium. Magazines are a visual medium, and would need a specialized type of app for browsing them properly.
(DIR) Post #Ar3RFISxWJJs5Y1wuG by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-12T21:13:28Z
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@canusfeminacanis > A temperate climate and NZ needs to resort to wheat for its cattle?Supplementary feed is sometimes necessary, eg during droughts. But doing it as a routine practice is a sure sign of overstocking.The fact that we're importing commodity grains as feed, so we can export commodity milk powder, underscores just how backwards enforced globalization is. So much "trade" is just shuffling products around, rather than serving real human needs.
(DIR) Post #Ar3WXgpGBoiKcd3FLM by canusfeminacanis@mastodon.nz
2025-02-12T22:12:44Z
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@strypey Yeah, I know about silage, etc. But yeah, grain isn't supposed to feature regularly. Overstocking? I hadn't thought of here. Globalization is showing cracks - that might be the only good thing that comes out of the current global chaos.
(DIR) Post #Ar3ZBQjxc8cEE2eMXA by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-12T22:42:21Z
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@gatesvp > Is there a specific magazine feature that you're thinking of that cannot be delivered with that Tech?See:https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/113989018927679816It can probably be done with existing protocol plumbing, but the UX needs attention, and driving adoption needs a coherent story about what it is, and why and how to use it.
(DIR) Post #Ar3kIYOee4c9UhHeBE by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-13T00:46:55Z
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@canusfeminacanis > Overstocking? I hadn't thought of hereThe dairy industry has been trying to cram as many cows as they can into every square metre of land. Dr Mike Joy explained to me that it's a real estate speculation business, not a food production business.The more milk solids you can pump out (in the short term) per area of land, the higher the capital value of the land gets. Neither feed imports nor environmental externalities count against that value. It's a classic pump and dump.
(DIR) Post #Ar3kpCLRecfkerLfBA by canusfeminacanis@mastodon.nz
2025-02-13T00:52:49Z
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@strypey Oh, my giddy android. This explains so very many things. How the hell did land value get tied up in milk solids, though? How? When? Who?Real estate agents/ developers should be shot.
(DIR) Post #Ar6DzJ92Vs2nd8dea0 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-14T05:28:58Z
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(1/?)@gatesvp > so you want standardized layouts so that we can have magazines on our phones/tablets/computers/kindles/etcMy goal is for magazines to continue to exist as a distinct medium, beyond the extinction of mass-distribution print. Instead of dissolving into their constituent parts (texts, images, pull quotes, etc) in a digital grey goo.As a stretch goal, I'd like it to be a decentralised medium akin to podcasting, as opposed to a monopoly platform akin to YouTub, Stopify, etc.
(DIR) Post #Ar6EHV6ulOa9xCJssC by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-14T05:32:18Z
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(2/?)@gatesvp> experts have literally been trying to solve this problem for 30 yearsI'm not sure that's true. The managerialists who took over the print business in the late 20th century have been mostly sticking their head in the sand. Pretending that digital convergence is something that only happened to other media businesses.Meanwhile the tech industry has mostly been dominated by VC-funded DataFarmers, for who media are just "content", bait to attract eyeballs to ad hooks.
(DIR) Post #Ar6EcYsByAo9hjTZFA by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-14T05:36:08Z
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(3/3)Yes, engineers have worked on various ways of converting documents into digital forms, like HTML, XML, RDF, PDF, OpenDocument, DocX, ePub, etc, and various ways of moving them across the net. But I'm not sure any of those people have given much thought to magazines as a distinct *medium*, nor the UX of people obtaining and browsing them in digital form.
(DIR) Post #ArARftsiOR1BlYTz1s by john@liberdon.com
2025-02-16T06:21:16Z
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@strypey @rabble I've had an RSS reader that presented image attachments just fine. But yeah, if you care about page layout and such then probably a specialized reader that understands an ordered list of images as a particular thing would be good.Most of the "online magazines" whose RSS feeds I've subscribed to in the past would do one-article-per-entry and drop HTML for the article in there. In some cases the HTML would just be the summary or and a link to their site but I'd unsubscribe.
(DIR) Post #ArFtChP9TIaPB9JnpA by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-02-18T21:23:16Z
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@john > if you care about page layout and such then probably a specialized reader that understands an ordered list of images as a particular thing would be goodExactly. But as @gatesvp points out ...https://mstdn.ca/@gatesvp/114003637054845728... getting it to look good and browse easily is hard, especially to do it consistently across different form factors.> In some cases the HTML would just be the summary or and a link to their site but I'd unsubscribeWhy's that? I'd find that useful.